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Urban Hymns by Keith Badham
Performance by Up-Stage Theatre Company won Best Youth Actress award in the Bedfordshire One Act Play Festival, 2011 |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 65. No chorus. The nine scripts have casts ranging from two to twenty, however the author expects that some groups will reorganise the twenty-character script for a smaller group - his estimated minimum cast is six. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A series of short scripts for teenagers. Simple to set, but with plenty of performance challenges. Contains swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine short scripts:
Introduction (Nominally twenty roles)
Bittersweet Symphony (Seven roles)
The Drugs Don't Work (Four roles)
Sonnet (Four roles)
Juliet (Two roles)
Romeo (Two roles)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Five roles)
24 Minutes From Tulse Hill (Six roles)
Lucky (Nominally 15 roles) |
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| The Vanity of Dorian Gray by Valerie Goodwin |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 20. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of the script includes suggestions for 5 (public domain) songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Seventy-five minute adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, peppered with Victorian and Edwardian music hall songs and comedy. |
| Synopsis | The hedonistic young man Dorian Gray makes a wish that his portrait would age instead of himself, and the wish comes true. He takes advantage of his eternal youth to court and then dispose of a never-ending line of young women, but four decades later, his sins catch up with him. |
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| Varadachary The Dadaist by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Three in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Marcel Duchamp explains the influences of his Dadaist art on his 1929 victory over Belgian chess champion Georges Koltanowski. |
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| Variations by Peter Appleton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. Two couples (otherwise no limitation on ages). |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One act play, single interior set, simple props. (Contains mild swearing) |
| Synopsis | Two couples are rounding off a nice evening with drinks and talk, but a story in the local paper changes the mood and secrets are uncovered. |
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| Vectors of Power by Geoff Bamber |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. Character genders may be changed at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one act play for youth, set in a fantasy role-play computer game. |
| Synopsis | Chalera is a Warrior Chieftain, unable to pass through the portal and progress into the next zone. She seeks help from IT, where the small print seems to hold the clue. Then a range of obstacles appear in the paths of the participants, who must overcome them using the points available to them. Can the gamers reach their goal? |
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| A Very Modern Wedding by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Some flexibility of ages would be suitable - at the Producer's discretion. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | 2 song suggestions are included with the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act satirical comedy with a single (church nave) setting. |
| Synopsis | A satire on modern society, particularly the rush to litigation, is played out - as Charlie and Fenella, who have known each other for three weeks attempt to take their vows. There is quasi-legal squabbling between Best Man and Maid of Honour, and an impatient Vicar... |
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| The Victorians by Andrew Yates |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 36. Chorus. Very flexible numbers! The roles are a mixture of adults and children, but intended to be played by children. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Piano and vocal scores for six original songs (plus a late-Victorian popular song) are included with the Producer's Copy of the script. |
| Style | Short educational and entertaining musical for kids. |
| Synopsis | A brief history of Victorian England brought together through a series of songs and Vignettes. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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| The Victory of the Revolution by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Seven in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. The Cuban revolution, reviewed through Fidel Castro's 1966 chess match against the Mexican master Filiberto Terrazas. |
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| View from the Prom by Neville Judson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act drama of a three-way conversation. Easy to stage, requiring just a bench for the three women to sit on. |
| Synopsis | Three women, from three generations of a family, sit on a bench overlooking the beach in Tenby. Tegwyn has decided to send her mother Gwendolyn to an old people's home for a few days, but is uncomfortable about it. Tegwyn's daughter Celyn is not happy being away doing research and wants to come home. Gwendolyn sees four swimmers whom she believes she had last seen many years before.
[Gwendolyn has seen the swimmers before - their meeeting is told from the swimmers' perspective in The Barrier. Knowledge of this is completely irrelevant to the content of this play, but nevertheless, the two plays would work well together.] |
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| The Vikings - Class Play by Sue Russell |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 35. No chorus. Unusually, the characters include a fly! |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A list of suggested music is included in the Producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full class assembly piece - essentially a series of linked, themed, skits, about the Vikings in Britain. Aimed at the English National Curriculum Key Stage 2 topic 6C on settlers in Britain. |
| Synopsis | A whirlwind tour of the Vikings in (and beyond) Britain, covering raids, kings, domestic life and exploration. |
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